The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India

by Anupama Rao and RAO

This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520257618
• ISBN13: 9780520257610
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"